Diapositiva 1

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Community Initiative EQUAL II Turn Project
IT-G2-PUG-038 Per lImpresa Sociale
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PARTNERSHIP

• Consortium of Social Cooperatives Elpendù
  Leader of the Temporary Association of
  Enterprises and DP Managing Organisation Mola di
  Bari
• Mosconi Consulting Rome
• LAPE Agency for promoting Social Cooperation
  Naple
• Messapia Foundation of Commercial Law Experts
  District of Lecce

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Issues faced by the project

• The project focuses on dysfunctionality and
  weackness inner factors that reduce the
  development of social enterprises in Apulia.
• Social cooperation represents, in our region, a
  very important actor, not only for its
  contribution given to the creation of a welfare
  mix system, but also for the economic dymension
  it has achieved and for its capacity to face
  employment issues, also those concerning
  underprivileged people

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Issues faced by the project - 2

• The growth of social Cooperation can increase in
  next years. Using the existing opportunities,
  would be possible, for Social Cooperatives, if
  they became able to face complex managerial
  elements. Anyway, the social enterprises leaders,
  are not, at present, able to effectively face
  such challenges, because of a serious lack in
  managerial skills

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Aim - Objectives

• The project has the following aims
• 1) Improvement and empowerment of managerial and
  entrepreneurial skills of those working in
  cooperatives
• 2) creation of a system for real and advisory
  services adapted to the peculiarities which
  characterize social cooperation

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The objectives which the project aims to, are not
in contrast with the values of cooperation the
achievement of ethical and social aims cannot
prescind, indeed, from a constant focus on
competition and payment. Only in this way, the
creation of that vicious cyrcle where success
in payment feeds success in social issues and
vice versa, would be possible, thus allowing the
achievement of the institutional aims of a social
cooperative and ensuring a permanent
functionality to social enterprises.The project
aims to face the problems which affect social
cooperation in Apulia, by the intervention on the
causes which provoke them and creating the
conditions to make the project results divulgence
able to contribute to transfer the good practices
acquired to the widest possible part of the
sector.
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Project Actions

• A Reseacrh on human and professional
  resources existing in the social cooperation
  sector in Apulia.
• B Initial and permanent training
• b1 of the administrative and leading
  cadres of cooperatives
• b2 of external advisors of
  cooperatives
• b3 - Managerial training of leading
  groups.
• C - Design of a model for real services supply
  and experimentation in a pilot group of Social
  Cooperatives working in the five districts of
  Apulia region.
• D - Normative database that will be at disposal
  for consultation through the Web.
• E - Experimentation of a help desk for financial
  assistance to social cooperatives.

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Transnationality

• Transnational partners
• Italy Project Per limpresa Sociale
  
  DP Managing Organisation Consortium
  Elpendù
• Spain Project EMPRENDEJOVEN
• DP Managing Organisation Regional
  Councillorship for Social Welfare in Castilla La
  Mancha
• Finland Project RAKET
• DP Managing Organisation Association for the
  Social Economy of Sea-Lapland

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Transnational Aims

• Analysis of the European legislation on
  Cooperatives
• Design and approval of the Statute of the
  European Social Cooperative that is going to be
  realized
• 3. Foundation and start-up of an European Social
  Cooperative